Aesop's Fable-The Ass’s Brain

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The Ass's Brain - A Fable from Aesop

The Lion, the Fox and the Ass

   One day, the Lion and the Fox went for hunting together. Whole day, they were traveling here and there, but they could not find anything for their fist. They became tired and sat under a tree shadow. Suddenly, they find out an Ass was eating grass far from them. The clever Fox had an idea to fetch the Ass gently. They were discussing about the matter. The Lion gave an advice to the Fox and sent a message to the Ass, proposing to make an alliance between their two families.
 

   The Ass came to the place of meeting with great enthusiasm and overjoyed at the prospect of a royal alliance. But when the Ass came there, the Lion simply jumped on the Ass, and said to the Fox:

"Here is our dinner for today. Watch you here while I go and have a rest and a short while I am coming. Woe betide you if you touch my prey."

Aesop's Fables-The Crow and the Fox

 Aesop's Fables - The Crow and the Fox

The Crow and the Fox

   Once a fox saw a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese in its beak and settle on a branch of a tree.

"That's for me," said the fox, and he walked up to the foot of the tree. 

"Good Day, Mistress Crow," the fox cried. "How well you are looking today; how glossy your feathers; how bright your eyes."

   The clever fox continued, "I feel sure your voice must surpass that of the other birds, just as your figure does. Let me hear but one song from you that I may greet you as the Queen of Birds."

Aesop's Fables-The Young Crab and His Mother

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         The Young Crab and His Mother 

The Young Crab and his Mother

   One day a mother crab and her son, a little crab were walking on a beach. 

"Why in the world do you walk sideways like that?" said a Mother Crab to her son. "You should always walk straight forward with your toes turned out." 

"Show me how to walk, mother dear," answered the little Crab obediently, "I want to learn." 

   So the old Crab tried and tried to walk straight forward. But she could walk sideways only, like her son. And when she wanted to turn her toes out she tripped and fell on her nose.

Aesop's fables - The Fox and the Grapes

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The Fox and the Grapes

  The Fox and the Grapes

   In a very hot summer day, a Fox was walking through an orchard tree. The fox came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch.

   "Just the thing to fulfill my thirst," quoted the fox. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. 

   Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour.”

Aesop's Fables - The Ass and the Lap-dog

The Ass and the Lap-dog

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   The Ass and the Lap-dog

   Once there was a farmer owned an ass and a lap-dog. The ass worked hard all day, pulling heavy loads. But he was well looked after, and had a warm, comfortable stable, with plenty of fresh hay to eat and water to drink.

   The lap-dog stayed with his master all day, and lived in the house with him. He did no work, but was made much of, and even allowed to sit on the master's lap. 

   The ass saw the lap-dog leading a life of leisure, being petted by the master, and being given choice tidbits of food from the master's own plate, and the ass grew jealous of the lap-dog. 

   “I wish the master would love me as much, and give me as much attention as he does the lap-dog,” sighed the ass.

Fables from Aesop - The Fox and the Crow

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The Fox and the Crow

      The Fox and the Crow

   A fox once saw a crow fly off with a piece of cheese in its beak and sat on a branch of a tree. "That's for me, my dear and I’ll get it from you." said the fox himself, and he walked up to the tree. 

   "Good-day, Mistress Crow," the fox cried. "How well you are looking to-day? How shiny your feathers and how bright your eye? I feel that your voice must exceed that of other birds surly, just as your face and body does. Now let me hear one song from you that I may salute you as the Queen of Birds."
   The crow lifted up her head and began to caw her best. But the moment when she opened her mouth the piece of cheese fell to the ground and it reached to the fox. The fox immediately grab that piece of cheese and the crow was thundered to see this. 

   "That will do," said the fox to the crow. "That was all I wanted. In exchange for your cheese I will give you a piece of free advice for the future, ‘Do not trust flatterers’."



 
The moral of the story: 
                
              We should not believe the flatterers.




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Aesop's Fables - The sick Lion

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The Sick Lion

       The sick Lion

    A Lion had come to the end of his days and lay sick towards death at the mouth of his cave and gasping for breath. The animals, his subjects, came round him and drew nearer as he grew more and more helpless. When they saw him on the point of death they thought to themselves: "Now is the time to pay off old grudges." So the Boar came up and drove at him with his teeth, after that a Bull gored him with his horns. Still the Lion lay helpless before them. At that time the Ass, feeling quite safe from the danger of the old Lion, came up and turning his tail to the Lion kicked up his heels into Lion’s face. "This is a double death for me," growled the Lion.

The moral of the story:

          Only cowards insult dying majesty.

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Aseop's Fable

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  The Lion and the Mouse

       
     Once there was a lion taking a rest. At this time a naughty little mouse began running up and down upon the lion. For this reason the lion woke up. The lion placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to eat him. 

     The lion caught the mouse and holding him in his large claws. The lion growled in anger- “How dare you wake me up! Don't you know that I am King of the Beasts? Anyone who disturbs my rest deserves to die!"

    The scared mouse, shaking and trembling, begged the lion to let him go. “Please don't eat me Your Majesty! I did not mean to wake you, it was a mistake. I was only playing. Please let me go  and I promise to do something for you in return some of this day.I will be your friend forever. Who knows but one day I could save your life?” 

    The lion looked at the tiny mouse and laughed. “You save my life? What an absurd idea!” he said mockingly.

Aesop's Fable

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    The Dog and the Shadow

 There was dog lived in a village. It happened when the Dog had got a piece of meat and was carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace. Now on his way of home he had to cross a piece of wood lying across a running stream. When he crossed, he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the water underneath. Thinking it was another dog with another piece of meat, he made up his mind to have that also. So he made a snap at the shadow in the water, but as he opened his mouth the piece of meat fell out, dropped into the water and it was never seen more. 

The moral of the story:

Beware you can lose the thing what you get by grasping at the greediness.

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Aesop's Fables - The Man and his Gold

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The Man and his Gold

    

     The Man and his Gold

 There was a miser who sold his property and bought a chunk of gold. Then the man buried his gold just outside the city walls. He constantly went there to visit and inspect it. One of the workmen noticed the man's behavior and suspected the truth. For that reason, after the man had gone away, he took the gold chunk. When the man came back and found that the hiding place was empty, he began to cry and scratch his hair. Someone saw the man's extravagant misery and asked him what was happen. The miser man told him the reason why he cried. Then the man said to the miser, “Enough of your grieving! Take a stone and put it where the gold was and make believe the gold is still there. It’s not as if you ever made any use of it!”

The moral of the story:

There is no point in owning something unless you don’t use it for yourself.

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About Aesop's Fables

    Generally fables are close to the imaginative atmosphere of fairy tales about animals. Observing the life and characteristics of animals, the fabulists makes a comparison between them and the moral characteristics of men.
    The images of animals have a parabolic meaning. The donkey is use to express the characteristics of a hard working and stupid man, the sheep - of the gentle and harmless, the snake - of the evil, wicked and unkind, and the wolf exposes the nature of an evil and cruel man.
         In that sense Aesop reviews the essential morals of his time, giving them a humorous evaluation. Aesop often relates people with animals and plants. This particular sense of expression has been combined with Aesop's fables throughout the centuries. This was started from ancient Greece, going into Rome, Byzantium and reaching the civilizations to civilizations and surviving until today. Since the time of Aesop, the fable was a powerful tool to expose and ridicule our characteristics and vices as people and as a society.
     In ancient Greek and Roman education, the fable was one of the exercises in prose composition and public speaking—wherein students would be asked to learn fables, increase upon them, formulate their own and finally use them as convincing examples in their speeches. Plato wrote in "Phaedo" that Socrates whiled away his jail time turning some of Aesop's fables "which he knew" into verses.
     Aesop's fables may be short, but it offers a wise lesson in the end. It helps us to discover ourselves. It helps us to find out the hidden lesson behind the images presented by the author.

Aesop

A Little is known about the life of Aesop. According to historical facts he was a slave, who lived in the sixth century BC in ancient Greece. Some legends suggest Aesop was an ugly hunchbacked slave, although his real appearance is a mystery. One thing is known for sure - Aesop was a very smart, creative and imaginative man... 

Aesop was a fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. His existence remains uncertain and no writings by him survive, many tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales are characterized by animals and non-living objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics.

The earliest Greek sources, including Aristotle, specify that Aesop was born around 620 BC in Thrace at a site on the Black Sea coast which would later become the city Mesembria. In the Roman imperial period Phaedrus, who adapted the fables into Latin, say that Aesop was born in Phrygia.